Black Gold controller overlay skin

Black Gold leaves the shell plain. The whole pad is a soft matte black with no pattern and no coloured light lines, and all the colour sits on the controls: the symbols on the face buttons, the arrows on the D-pad, a ring around the top of each stick and the logo in the middle of the pad are a muted gold.

That makes it the quietest vault skin. It looks closest to Stock, but the gold picks out every control, so the layout of the pad is easier to read than on plain black, and the overlay looks finished rather than default.

On the DualShock 4, the gold lands on the face buttons, the stick rings and the PS button below the touchpad. On the Xbox controller, A, B, X and Y and the Xbox button turn gold, and the stick rings match. The shell stays black on all three pads.

A dark, simple pad sits well over almost any game, from a bright open world to a dark shooter, and it does not clash with a HUD. Black Gold suits a channel with a black, gold or neutral palette. If you want lights, the vault lets you add a light colour that is steady, pulsing or off, set the buttons and D-pad to another colour, and print a name of up to 16 characters.

Black Gold works on the PS5, PS4 and Xbox pads and is part of the vault, $9.99 once with nothing to renew. Sign in to use it, save your design and get the link for OBS.